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No word of a lie, probably half of the near 60,000 in attendance were gone at by the 85th minute.

Empty seats inside the London Stadium well before full time (Image: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

If this is what the board were hoping to see as progress when they left the now demolished Upton Park to move to Stratford, they won't have liked seeing the disillusioned supporters quickly filing for the exits.

Players leaving quickly too

The post-mortem after the demoralising defeat did not last long in the Hammers dressing room as within 20 minutes, football.london spotted three West Ham players leaving very sharpish - one on a motorbike.

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The official reason given is that they had to head off to catch their flights quickly for the international break duties but surely, after a result like that, an inquest might have taken a bit longer than what it did.